The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1887-04-15
NEWS AND OTHER NoTINGs.

NEWS AND OTHER SOTINGS.
1t is estimated that nearly ten thousand /
imm grants arrived at New York by steam.
ers on Friday and Saturday.
( Two shocks OF earthquake occurred at /
Burlington, Vermont, on Sunday afternoon.
/ The first was rather light aud at about 2s0,
( and the second ten minutes later.
John Holland, aged " years. was found
dead in a farm house near Syracuse, Y. Y,
/ on saturday. His wife was BY mis- side, Just
alive. She said her husband died ten DAYS
ago from starvation.
-Sacriegious burglars stole the silver
communion 50, vice out Of the EpscOpal
church at N-wburyport, Mass. Saturday
night. One of the pieces was GIFT from
King William and Queen Mary in 1894. and
| was Of rare historical value.
&C. P. BIatt at New York on Saturday,
attempted TO catch "a 2J-pound ball fired from
cannon loaded with half a pound of pow
der. At the fi.et fire. the catcher missed the
ball bur caught a badly bruised finger He
secured thl missile at the second lnuing.
-Wiliiom and Joseph Warsord, two
/ brothers had Az alteration a. their hoU'e
II miles sOuth OF Springfield, HIS, concern
ing horse. William drew a revolver and
shot Joseph, breaking his arm. H then
went to his room and shot himself through
the heart.
The bark 90 ado was foundered in the
Pacific, fifty miles off Cape FIat:ery, on
the 1st inst. OF the crew of fourteen per
sons. only two were saved The vessel
was struck by fearful storm, and was
I focsp6 a hput L-a a o. IRA
reported to be lost.
"A prairie fire has swept over a great
portion of Grant township Huron county
Dakota. While attempting to reach a feld
of plowed ground on Sunday last, Edward
Maloney and Annie Marine were burned TO
death, and K,te MaIoney was so badly
burned she cannot live.
Two Frenchnen have been recently
making inquiries at Toronto, Canada, as to
the ability Of Canada to supply horses suita-
bic for military purposes Their movements
were somewhat mysterious. The general
belief IS that they were representatives of
the French Government
"A valuable brood mare belonging to
Norman Barnard of Avondale, Chester
county. broke its leg recently The lee was
amputated by Dr. HuidekOoper, of the Unit
versity of Pennsylvania, ard the anima is
doing we'll. This is the first case on record
of such an operation in America
The Interior Department is informed
that an immense fountain of petrO leum re
Gently burst from the earth near the town of
8aku, in the province of that name, in Rus
sia, and its flow has since cantjnu d without
signs Of sunsiding, resulting ip the forma-
ton Of a great lake Of pure petroleum.
A peculiarly horrible accident happened
at the Lake AngC !iue mine la Wisconsin
Saturday night A miusr named Benjamin
Marston was coming from the bottom of
the mine in a skip in which ere is Hoisted,
when he stuck his head out at the third level
and it was cut off as tholgh with a knife
Mrs. Ellen T Eng'e, wife of Daniel
Engle, residing In Pottstown, committed
suicide Saturday morning by drowning in
the Manatawny Creek, which flows cTosa by
her home. Mrs. Englp had been an inmate
at the Insane Hospital at Norristown, but
{ was taken home on Saturday a-week She
was forty years of age and leaves a husband
ard three children.
The meanest three men in Georgia are
thus described by the Covington paper
zone of them will not drink as much water
p as ne wants unless u De IToHi 3nOtDeT ma s
well or branch. The second torbfds anv of
) his family from writing anything but a
? small hand as it is waste of ink to ma ke
! large letters. The third stops his clock at
night in order to save the wear and tear on
2 the machinery"
Lancaster county l. indignant over the
, brutal attack Of negro man on Peter wesch.
: Lancaster youth who had been hired to 60
. to the country with him for some horses.
When they GOT out of town the negro attack ed
the boy with a club, beat him hrutalIy, aud
2 robbed him. The same darkey is believed
to have attempted another such crime, but
, the resistance was too much for tim. He
: may be iynched if caught.
2 John Hogan was at Westield Corners,
2 H., on Friday with a stallion, and while
exhibiting the horse it struck him with its
. forefeet and knocked him down, and then
held him to the ground with its knees.
; Another man then stabbed the stallion in
! the neck with knife As the horse arose
from Hogan's body it grabbed She PROSTATE
man by the nape of the neck and shook him
so that he d led in eight minutes.
During a family quarrel on Saturday
. night Mrs John BuchhOS of Meadville, Pa,
, seized a lighted lamp and hurled it at her
husbands hea d. The burning missile ex-
, pIoded aud in an instant both husband and
wife were envelOTed in flames. Buchholz
dragged bis wife from the burning building
but she was so badly injured Il at death re-
lieved her sufferings at an early hour on
Sunday morning. BuchholZ was lso terri
: bv burned and is now dying.
D The sale of the crown jewels of France
- which is announced to take place in Parts,
= beginning May u. is an event which will
? doubtless excite no little curiosity in the CAV
: French capital. It has a po itical signif-
cance, indicating that France, ia the eyes of
. the present government at le: st, ] as done
forever with royalt- and its ge ~ ga'Vs. The
value of the jewels is estimated at about
, / 81, 500, 900, which will he turned into the
3 Golfers of the nation. Jewels that graced
: the persons of CathaIine de Mcdici and
+ Margaret of Vaiois, the diamonds given by
e Mazarin to Louis XIV, the two glrdles worn
, by the Empress Eugene and other famous
: articles of jewelry are included in the col
. lection